Sung-jae

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Sung-jae, also spelled Seong-jae, is a Korean masculine given name. [1] Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 27 hanja with the reading "sung" and 20 hanja with the reading "jae" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names. [2]

Hanja Korean language characters of Chinese origin

Hanja is the Korean name for Chinese characters. More specifically, it refers to those Chinese characters borrowed from Chinese and incorporated into the Korean language with Korean pronunciation. Hanja-mal or Hanja-eo refers to words that can be written with Hanja, and hanmun refers to Classical Chinese writing, although "Hanja" is sometimes used loosely to encompass these other concepts. Because Hanja never underwent major reform, they are almost entirely identical to traditional Chinese and kyūjitai characters, though the stroke orders for some characters are slightly different. For example, the characters and are written as 敎 and 硏. Only a small number of Hanja characters are modified or unique to Korean. By contrast, many of the Chinese characters currently in use in Japan and Mainland China have been simplified, and contain fewer strokes than the corresponding Hanja characters.

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Jae-kyung is a Korean unisex given name. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 20 hanja with the reading "jae" and 54 hanja with the reading "kyung" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names.

Dae-sung, also spelled Dae-seong, is a Korean masculine given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 17 hanja with the reading "dae" and 27 hanja with the reading "sung" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.

Sung-il, also spelled Seong-il or Seoung-il, is a Korean masculine given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 27 hanja with the reading "sung" and ten hanja with the reading "il" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names. One pair of hanja used to write this name (成一) also correspond to a number of different Japanese given names, including the on-yomi Seiichi and kun-yomi such as Iwao and Masakazu.

Sung-hee, also spelled Song-hui in North Korea, is a Korean unisex given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 27 hanja with the reading "sung" and 24 hanja with the reading "hee" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.

References

  1. "성재, 이름검색". erumy.com. Retrieved 2012-12-21.
  2. "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names](PDF). South Korea: Supreme Court. Retrieved 2013-10-17.